Kia’s flagship gas-powered SUV, the Telluride, is getting a big update for the 2027 model year, and the South Korean brand has lifted the cover on what we’ll see when it makes its in-person debut at the 2025 Los Angeles Auto Show later this month. The new Telluride embodies what Kia calls its “Opposites United” design ethos that’s both rugged and sophisticated with curves and angles. We’re not sure where we stand on that idea, but the new Telluride’s look certainly does appear evolutionary instead of revolutionary, in a break from what Kia has done for a lot of its latest designs.

Having just added hands-free driving with automated lane changes to its DreamDrive Pro driver-assistance tech over the summer, Lucid has announced plans for further development of its autonomous-driving system. The California electric-vehicle maker has partnered with chipmaker Nvidia with the goal of being the first to market with what the companies in a statement call a “true eyes-off, hands-off and mind-off (Level 4) consumer-owned autonomous vehicle.”

It’s been a few years since Jeep last significantly updated the popular Grand Cherokee, with the fifth generation debuting for the 2022 model year — but it feels longer than that given all the new and refreshed entries in the mid-size SUV class. And with Jeep’s big brand rethink in full swing under its new executive management, it was time for an update to the SUV that started the craze.

GM says its customers have logged more than 700 million miles using its Super Cruise hands-free semi-autonomous highway-driving tech without a single crash attributed to the system. But hands-free does not mean eyes-free; Super Cruise monitors the driver during its operation and will deactivate if their gaze strays from the road for too long. However, GM says that will change with the 2028 Cadillac Escalade IQ, the brand’s super-sized electric SUV.

With the demise of the federal electric vehicle tax credit at the end of September, automakers are trying to boost EV demand with incentives. Tesla’s latest offer cuts lease prices across much of its lineup, and the automaker is also offering financing deals.